“Suprematism” by Kazimir Malevich

Paintings from the collections of Russian museums, which participated in the exhibition “Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian avant-garde: the art of the revolution” at the Sejong Performing Arts Center in Seoul, remained in the capital of South Korea. According to RIA Novosti, citing the Korean company Hanguk Ilbo, the organizer of the fair, problems arose due to logistical difficulties. – told the correspondent of the publication in the company.

Problems with stuck paintings are already being resolved, and employees of the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts are in Seoul, checking the status of the paintings and preparing them for shipment to Russia. As the director of the museum Nikita Korytin noted in an interview with TASS, besides the difficulties with logistics, there are no additional obstacles to the transportation of paintings, and the canvases will return to Russia at the end of April.

At the exhibition in South Korea, Wassily Kandinsky’s “Improvisation No. 217. Gray Oval”, Kazimir Malevich’s “Suprematism”, Mikhail Larionov’s “Jewish Venus”, Natalia Goncharova’s “Kosari”, Alexander’s “Non-objective” composition” pictures. Rodchenko and others. The canvases are included in the collections of Primorsky State Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg Fine Arts Museum, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum and Krasnoyarsk Surikov Art Museum. A total of 75 paintings were exhibited in the exhibition. The exhibition took place from 31 December to 17 April.

Previously, due to the tense political situation, paintings from the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery were detained at customs in Finland. The fate of the Morozov collection displayed at the LVMH museum in Paris also raised concerns: the director of the museum, Bernard Arnault, has been suspended from making decisions, and the French government will deal with it. moving or retaining images. But a few days ago, the president’s special representative for international cultural cooperation, Mikhail Shvydkoy, told reporters that the collection could return to Russia in mid-May.